That’s a good cat!
My outdoor feral had some sort of encounter a week ago that has left her with an enormous goose egg on her forehead. She wouldn’t let me touch it, but it sort of looks better and then will look much worse. The other night it burst open and blood was running down her face. Poor thing. She was miserable and wouldn’t eat. She was so lethargic that she actually let me wash her face with a washcloth soaked in warm water and colloidal silver. Then she wanted to drink out of the bowl of silver, so I left it for her and she has seemed much better the past two days. Very hungry and vocal this morning.
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Sounds like the poor thing had a cyst. We had a feral we fed that came up with the same thing, I thought it had been shot.
I suspect she tangled with a local Tom and got bitten, which then abscessed. They insist on coming around and singing their songs to her and peeing on my barbecue grill cover. (Time to replace it AGAIN.) She's a TNR, so no good will come of their songs and they really make her mad. She's scrappy.